Just a reminder, the site is going into lockdown in about three hours!
The data imports are all done and I'm currently putting the site through some stress testing and tuning. But I need a couple volunteers. If you're interested in volunteering please drop me a PM by 1700 EDT on Sunday.
Also as a note, I was able to ensure all of the images were imported into the new site. For the images that were over the new 151K limit I went through and batch resized them.
UnionVerse Server Migration
UnionVerse has moved to a brand new server! We're inviting all users to the new site.
Please Note: You will need to re-register on the new server, however if you use the same user name your user page has been migrated for you.
New Server: http://union.virtueverse.netWe will be leaving the old server up for a few weeks using the .com address to give people time to access any content that wasn't migrated. After that time period the .com URL will be pointed to the new server and adjusted so that old links to the site are still honored.
Old Server: http://union.virtueverse.com
Talk pages were not automatically transfered. All of the images from the old site were transfered and the ones that were over 150 KB were resized for you.
New Features:
- Added ReCaptcha to user registration. Captcha will not appear for registered users in most instances.
- Added support for easy article creation via new forms on the homepage.
- Added the ability to use use offsite images. Simply include the URL on the page with no markup. Users will be unable to upload any files larger them 150 KB.
- Added support for Mediawiki Widgets. Widgets will allow users to easily pull in outside content including:
I will leave any other announcements up to the UnionVerse team. The new forums for both wikis will be available hopefully by Wednesday of this week. I have also been posting site updates and news to Twitter if anyone uses it. I can look at adding new page updates for UnionVerse to the feed as well if there is interest.
http://twitter.com/VirtueVerse
Enjoy the new server and shiny new toys guys!
Great work wiki team. I think it looks ah-mazing!
O_O
AAAWWWWWEEESOME! /crazytaxi
I approve muchly. <(^_^)b
[EDIT!] PNG uploading works now, right?
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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Originally Posted by Crazy_Dragon
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AAAWWWWWEEESOME! /crazytaxi I approve muchly. <(^_^)b [EDIT!] PNG uploading works now, right? |
Well obviously as long as its under 151KB.
This is a triumph. ^_^
Also, yay to finally being able to make proper image links. No more inelegant redirects!
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
Alright seems like you crazy foreigners have found something that is broken!
It appears right now the redirects aren't working with crazy characters in the URL.
http://union.virtueverse.net/wiki/Bá...zabeth_Báthory) <--- this does not work.
So... I'm trying to figure out why this isn't working now, give me some time.
Thank you for all of this, it looks terrific. Now to redo all of my pages with new snazziness. Which if you have altisis as bad as me, means a lot of work.
Just as well I enjoy it. Yay. 
@Dante EU - Union Roleplayer and Altisis Victim
The Militia: Union RP Supergroup - www.themilitia.org.uk
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Its me that found out... I have a ******** of pages using those. For some reason he sees the URL's with those characters as invalid. The page of Elizabeth I re-uploaded and it came out not working... Others are simply not there. They didn't made the transfer.. although the pictures in it did.|
Originally Posted by ransim
Alright seems like you crazy foreigners have found something that is broken!
It appears right now the redirects aren't working with crazy characters in the URL. http://union.virtueverse.net/wiki/Bá...zabeth_Báthory) <--- this does not work. So... I'm trying to figure out why this isn't working now, give me some time. |
Pages down/not there:
Báthory Erzsébet (Elizabeth Báthory)
Vladislav Drăculea (Vlad Dracula)
Castle Báthory
Kokuryū-kai
Also I noticed that some / maybe all... redirect pages are not working.. test 'The Court of the Blood Countess' from http://union.virtueverse.net/wiki/Drew_Firstblood
- The Italian Job: The Godfather Returns #1151
Beginner - Encounter a renewed age for the Mook and the Family when Emile Marcone escapes from the Zig!
- Along Came a... Bug!? #528482
Average - A new race of aliens arrives on Earth. And Vanguard has you investigate them!
- The Court of the Blood Countess: The Rise of the Blood Countess #3805
Advanced - Go back in time and witness the birth of a vampire. Follow her to key moments in her life in order to stop her! A story of intrigue, drama and horror! Blood & Violence... not recommend to solo!
So any page with an accented character in the name bones the link? D:
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
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Originally Posted by Crazy_Dragon
So any page with an accented character in the name bones the link? D:
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Yep that is what is happening
- The Italian Job: The Godfather Returns #1151
Beginner - Encounter a renewed age for the Mook and the Family when Emile Marcone escapes from the Zig!
- Along Came a... Bug!? #528482
Average - A new race of aliens arrives on Earth. And Vanguard has you investigate them!
- The Court of the Blood Countess: The Rise of the Blood Countess #3805
Advanced - Go back in time and witness the birth of a vampire. Follow her to key moments in her life in order to stop her! A story of intrigue, drama and horror! Blood & Violence... not recommend to solo!
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'The Court of the Blood Countess' redirects to 'Court of the Blood Countess', which in turn redirects to the Category itself. I'm not surprised it's tripping over itself, to be honest.|
Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
Also I noticed that some / maybe all... redirect pages are not working.. test 'The Court of the Blood Countess' from http://union.virtueverse.net/wiki/Drew_Firstblood
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Wouldn't it have made more sense just to point both pages straight to the Category? o_@
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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That didn't work either... I left it in the mids of testing... But I got it working again.. Strange though. Oh well....
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Originally Posted by Crazy_Dragon
'The Court of the Blood Countess' redirects to 'Court of the Blood Countess', which in turn redirects to the Category itself. I'm not surprised it's tripping over itself, to be honest.
Wouldn't it have made more sense just to point both pages straight to the Category? o_@ |
- The Italian Job: The Godfather Returns #1151
Beginner - Encounter a renewed age for the Mook and the Family when Emile Marcone escapes from the Zig!
- Along Came a... Bug!? #528482
Average - A new race of aliens arrives on Earth. And Vanguard has you investigate them!
- The Court of the Blood Countess: The Rise of the Blood Countess #3805
Advanced - Go back in time and witness the birth of a vampire. Follow her to key moments in her life in order to stop her! A story of intrigue, drama and horror! Blood & Violence... not recommend to solo!
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Basically there is a issue with how the rewrite engine sees the Non-Ascii characters in the URL. Little bit of technical background.|
Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
Its me that found out... I have a ******** of pages using those. For some reason he sees the URL's with those characters as invalid. The page of Elizabeth I re-uploaded and it came out not working... Others are simply not there. They didn't made the transfer.. although the pictures in it did.
Pages down/not there: Báthory Erzsébet (Elizabeth Báthory) Vladislav Drăculea (Vlad Dracula) Castle Báthory Kokuryū-kai Also I noticed that some / maybe all... redirect pages are not working.. test 'The Court of the Blood Countess' from http://union.virtueverse.net/wiki/Drew_Firstblood |
The old server was a fairly ancient Linux based machine running an old copy of Fedora with Apache web server. The new server is a fairly robust machine running Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.
I purchased a tool for the Windows Server that allows IIS to handle the URL rewrites in the same manner as Apache does.
Now it appears that there are some modifications I can attempt to make to the rewrites to address this issue. Unfortunately however to do that its going to require me to lock both the Virtue and Union wiki's to do so, things will get a bit weird with the URL pathing while I'm messing with it.
So I can't work on it until most likely Wednesday at the earliest. Until then, I advise using the non-pretty URL to your pages until its fixed:
http://union.virtueverse.net/uv/inde...Castle_Báthory
That should work. Edit: Actually no it doesn't, at least not entirely, the rewrite is still trying to pick it up. I'll try to get this addressed Wednesday during a maintenance window.
Its very probable that they didn't come over automatically because they failed to pass through the XML import processor in mediawiki, or when I exported the list from the database into Excel it was lost/failed.
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Fixertated the 'The Court...' one. That was the problem page, as it redirecting to a page that was already redirecting to another page instead of just going straight to the Category. |
Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
That didn't work either... I left it in the mids of testing... But I got it working again.. Strange though. Oh well....
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Looks like it's just an anti-looping measure MediaWiki has more than anything.
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
Wouldn't it just be easier not to use accented characters in page names? You don't see them in URLs anyway, for a good reason.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Wouldn't it just be easier not to use accented characters in page names? You don't see them in URLs anyway, for a good reason.
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You want me to make all my links like ... [[Báthory Erzsébet (Elizabeth Báthory)|Elizabeth Bathory]]?
As you automatically make links from names you linked from... and the names should be written precisely how they are. That would go a bit strange. I would have to make a alternative link for every page I use with a special character. Of course I can do that.. but I cannot make sure everyone in the wiki does that for my pages.
Or that everyone making a new page with a character like this will do that.
Names with special characters should be as easy wiki-able as any [[word]] within a text. Without discrimination. I am not being difficult here FFM.
- The Italian Job: The Godfather Returns #1151
Beginner - Encounter a renewed age for the Mook and the Family when Emile Marcone escapes from the Zig!
- Along Came a... Bug!? #528482
Average - A new race of aliens arrives on Earth. And Vanguard has you investigate them!
- The Court of the Blood Countess: The Rise of the Blood Countess #3805
Advanced - Go back in time and witness the birth of a vampire. Follow her to key moments in her life in order to stop her! A story of intrigue, drama and horror! Blood & Violence... not recommend to solo!
I'm with Floaty on this.
And I remember the redirecting to a redirecting page problem last time....when, irrc, you screwed up a metric crapton of pages. Other peoples pages, might I add.
Edit: Nice to see that, while still not quite perfect, the new format makes the Power bars in the CD-Oreso charbox line up much better with the numbers in IE. Good stuff.
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Well its a localization issue. Truthfully speaking the server and the rewrite SHOULD be able to handle them. Because the issue might be that the wiki could be foreign language.|
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Wouldn't it just be easier not to use accented characters in page names? You don't see them in URLs anyway, for a good reason.
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Its not the wiki after all that can't handle it, the wiki handles it fine. Its the rewrite engine and how it handles them that is the issue.
So I'm fine with trying to root out and fix this problem.
The new forums for UnionVerse & VirtueVerse are all set up and running!
http://forum.virtueverse.net/
Feel free to join up!
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Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
Names with special characters should be as easy wiki-able as any [[word]] within a text. Without discrimination. I am not being difficult here FFM.
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No offence, but it's a hell of a lot of work for a tiny number of pages that only one or two people get any kind of "benefit" from.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Especially given the characters can't be used in game, searching for a page only for it to not come up due to the 'special' character being in it is kinda frustrating.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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If Ransim is okay with it, why are you two moaning exactly?
Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
Gawd damn builds part of a wiki and thinks he's a god...
Thanks for the explanation, Ransim.